Allan Lane

 Allan Lane, September 22, 1909, Mishawaka, IN - October 27, 1973, Woodland Hills, CA. He was a handsome second lead or supporting player in many films between 1929 and 1936 including, "Love in the Rough" 1930 with Robert Montgomery, "Madame Satan" 1930, "Night Nurse" 1931 with Barbara Stanwyck, "The Star Witness" 1931 with Walter Huston, "Local Boy Makes Good" 1931 with Joe E. Brown, "The Famous Ferguson Case" 1932 with Joan Blondell, "Week-End Marriage" 1932 with Loretta Young, "Winner Take All" 1932 with James Cagney, "Crooner" 1932 with David Manners, "A Successful Calamity" 1932 with George Arliss, "The Crash" 1932 with George Brent and Ruth Chatterton, "One Way Passage" 1932 with Kay Francis and William Powell. He left Warner Brothers and films altogether but returned in 1936, this time, to 20th Century Fox. He had many small uncredited roles much like before then, by the 1940s, he was in westerns almost exclusively playing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer and then Red Ryder in seven films. Between 1940 and 1966, Lane made eighty-two film and television series appearances, mostly in westerns. Between 1947 and 1953, he made over 30 B-movie westerns (as "Rocky" Lane) with his faithful horse 'Black Jack'. He died of cancer at age 64 in 1973.